Star Trek: Scouts
 

Launched on Trek Day. The next animated incarnation of ST after Prodigy is a series of 18 episode four minute shorts aimed at a pre-school audience, and treats them like as if they're riding the back of the bus.

Where does this fit into the timeline and lore?

Kurtzman and company can't possibly get fired soon enough.

You mean where do we place a cartoon, in which soap and meat balls literally fall from the sky, into continuity? Kinda hard to figure out but I'm sure someone is on it.

Seriously though, this might be the biggest problem for Star Trek's rule of thumb that TV shows and movies count as canon by default. The premise is just too absurd to take seriously, the best explanation I can come up with is that none of this nonsense is really happening and these kids are just playing around in a holodeck, though I doubt anything like that will turn out to be the case. It's probably just better to assume this thing doesn't officially count as canon.

Oh my god, that looks horrible.

Tribble TRIB-BLE Dooo da do da doo TRiB-BAL! Do da do da dooO!

Oh God, why?

Of course, you can't say anything bad about it. "How pathetic, you're an adult getting mad about it?!! It's for pre-schoolers, you idiot!!!" But they're missing the point entirely.

It's something that points to and underscores everything about how everyone involved with Kurtzman Trek fundamentally do not understand Trek. On any level. Star Trek didn't create generations of audiences by talking down to them. Star Trek created generations of audiences by intriguing young minds, inviting them to rise up to their level. And it generally worked. You don't need to conscript a new fandom out of pre-schoolers (and what is that, anyway? do you really want your new fandom to grow OUT of something so early?) when the old stuff was transcending generations in real-time.

Probably for the same reason that Kurtzman's cronies are left puzzled that only adults turned out to see Star Trek: Prodigy (but barely so, because it LOOKED like it was made for 5 year-olds) and not the 10-14 year old audience they made it for who didn't want anything to do with it. In fact, it did so bad, Paramount+ removed it from its service and Netflix, who actually paid out of their own pocket to finish up Prodigy season 2 and put it there did not bother to renew season 1 there because nobody was watching any of it.

You can absolutely get mad at stuff like this because it looks like it was made BY 5 year olds.

The best thing to get kids into Star Trek is nothing more than a good and compelling live action Trek show with Sci-Fi stuff and Trek-stories.